Using Options: Resource Ownership
Starfinder Society characters have access to all options, regardless of rarity, unless they are specifically called out on the page below. This means that characters have access to common, uncommon and rare options without boons. Characters must still meet all prerequisites for any options, such as attribute minimums or prerequisite feats.
- Ownership of Starfinder Player Core is not required for Character Option use in the Starfinder Society campaign, as long as rules are referenced from the official Starfinder Resource Document (sfrd).
Starfinder Society scenarios contain new character options on their chronicle sheets. To use options from a chronicle sheet, players must have completed the adventure as a player or GM and assigned that chronicle to their character. Depending on the adventure, new character options may be made available either to the character with the chronicle sheet, or all of a player's characters. Players are not required to own a Starfinder Society scenario to use these options; the chronicle sheet satisfies any ownership requirements.
To use an option from any source other than Starfinder Player Core or a Starfinder Society scenario, you must bring one of the following to your game table:
- A physical copy of the book you wish to use
- A name-watermarked PDF copy of the book
- Name-watermarked printouts of all relevant pages you wish to use from the PDF
- Access to the rules you wish to use in the form of either electronic access to the Starfinder Reference Document (paizo.com/sfrd) or a photocopy of the relevant pages; along with proof of purchase, such as a receipt from a game store or a screenshot of your My Downloads page on paizo.com.
The following do not satisfy this requirement:
- A photocopy of a physical book with no proof of purchase
- Printouts from electronic character builders such as Hero Lab
- Content reproduced in other sources under the Open Roleplaying Content License (ORC License), such as an online reference document or a homemade omnibus
In addition to the copy of the rules themselves, you must be able to provide a digital or physical copy of the below Character Options page for that source to show that the options you have selected for your character are legal for play.
Family members, significant others, or other members of the same household (such as roommates) can share resources if they are playing at the same table, rather than requiring a separate copy of the same book for each person. A group of friends that always plays together at the same table fulfills this requirement, as long as all the necessary materials for each character's options are present. Members playing at separate tables must each supply their own materials as normal.
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Standard
All options are of standard availability unless specifically noted otherwise.
Limited
Spells
dreaming potential (page 327) - does not interact well with the Downtime system used in SFS. Any deities which grant this spell now grant illusory scene at the same level.
Restricted
Deities
See the Rulings & Clarifications for further information.
The Devourer (page 36) - must choose unholy
Urgathoa (page 39) - must choose unholy
Feats
Communal Crafting (page 217) - does not interact with Downtime system in SFS2
Monster Crafting (page 224) - too much GM adjudication
All rituals - rituals are not used in SFS2 play.
Rulings and Clarifications
- Deities whose sanctification is “must choose unholy” may not be mechanically worshipped in Starfinder Society. They may still be revered, which does not provide mechanical benefits.
- Damoritosh’s Claw (vesk ancestry feat, page 77) is a 13th-level feat.
- For the purposes of abilities like the Infosphere Director envoy leadership style (page 104), a character is considered to have successfully identified a creature when they succeed or critically succeed at a Recall Knowledge check, regardless of what information they gain.
- If a PC takes damage with both a force field up and a shield raised, the force field takes damage first. Shield Block only triggers if there is damage remaining afterwards, at which point the shield would potentially be damaged.
- Remove the attack trait from the weight of ages spell (page 374).
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Standard
All options are of standard availability unless specifically noted otherwise.
Limited
None
Restricted
Escaped Experiment background (page 99) - requires GM input
Memories of Ashok feat (contemplative, page 143) - rituals are not used in SFS2 play
Rulings and Clarifications
- The Don’t Touch That! feat (xenoarcheologist archetype, page 120) is a 4th-level feat. The Ready for Trouble feat (page 120) requires expert proficiency in Thievery.
- The Diplomacy bonus from the xenodruid’s Planetary Bond feat (page 123) is a circumstance bonus.
- The Cellular Acceleration feat (astrazoan ancestry feat, page 133) is a two-action activity.
- Remove the linguistic trait from the Telepredict feat (contemplative ancestry feat, page 140).
- Large PCs do not have an increased reach natively, though some feats may increase their reach.
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Starfinder Society characters are permitted to be built using the mechanic and technomancer playtest classes as found at starfinderplaytest.com until the final versions of the classes are published. Guidelines for converting characters to the final ruleset will be forthcoming once the final classes are published.
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All content from the Invasion's Edge Player's Guide is of standard availability.
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Standard
All options are of standard availability unless specifically noted otherwise.
Limited
None
Restricted
None